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In lugnet.market.auction, Mike Poindexter writes: Ignoring the nitpicking (polybags and 50's/60's sets)... (...) No, I think the disagreement is more about what is in mint condition, not what mint is. The title of the auction in question was "LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | RE: Analog/Digital IO
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Is that how it works? I remeber a time when some students were using a joystick for a project and recall them dealing with some sort of PWM. As to whether they were the joystick position signals, I'm not entirely sure. (...) This message is for the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: http://www.letsbuyit.com?
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What about suggesting something like 8448 supercar. I missed out on the Argos deal :-( Does anyone want to sell one? Is it one of the most expensive sets except for the mindstorms /cybermaster sets. Or maybe the trains are more expensive? David (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?
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(...) As a matter of fact, I picked up some boxes at a KayBee store not too long ago that also didn't have a piece count on the box. It was a Night Lord's Castle (6097), and contained a different set of catalogs than I was used to as well (having (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Interesting robotics link
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philippe possemiers writes: > Maybe this link might be interesting to acquire some ideas : > (URL) the collapsing frame, except that you'd have to have six motors to do it right. (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Legos get you into college
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John A. Hern Jr writes: > Yes, but note that they are not a technical college, and that they are > doing this to recruit minority students to fill a quota. Would you want > to be operated on by a medical doctor who got his degree based on how > well (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Basement water alarm
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Brian B. Alano writes: > > > 2. The RCX clock seems to lose time, roughly > > (very roughly) a half hour per week. Anyone > > else noticed this? > > > > > PC clocks tend to lose time as well. 10 minutes a day isn't unheard of. > 1/2 hour per week is (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Analog/Digital IO
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Maxim sells a chip that I have connected to the parallel port on my PC and it seems to work well. I got the design from an article in Dr. Dobbs. The article was on using Linux to collect data. The author of the article has a book which has the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?
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(...) Can anyone substantiate this law? Can you point to a reference to it on the web? I know model kits usually don't give piece counts, and puzzles give only approximate piece counts (your 1000 piece puzzle probably doesn't have exactly 1000 (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd think it has an accurate crystal oscillator. (...) No, the frame counter in the ZX80/81/Spectrum (if yours is a ZX80 rather than 81, I'd like to buy it, BTW) simply counts the TV frames it produces. Those, in turn, would be about 60Hz in (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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